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Why Should Students Learn Computer Science? A Teacher’s Perspective

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If you participated in December’s Hour of Code, you may have come to realize the importance of Computer Science to students. Here’s Greg’s informed perspective on this question: Beyond job opportunities, why should all K-12 students learn about computer science? The same applies to computer science.

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Computer Science for the sake of ?

Computer Science Teacher

For many years, I have been saying that computer science and its tools should be the same. Now Bootstrap is probably best known for their mix of computer science and algebra but they are moving into more areas of the curriculum and I think that is a great thing. It makes sense as he is just learning how to read.

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Why Should Students Learn Computer Science? A Teacher’s Perspective

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you participated in December’s Hour of Code, you may have come to realize the importance of Computer Science to students. Here’s Greg’s informed perspective on this question: Beyond job opportunities, why should all K-12 students learn about computer science? The same applies to computer science.

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What Should APCS A Really Be About?

Computer Science Teacher

Engineering, astronomy, physics, and business are just some of the areas where programming is growing as a tool. Not that we ignore algorithms of course but that APIs were the way computing was increasingly being done. That seems a recipe for turning students off from computing completely. Today it is not that simple.

Astronomy 228
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Wonderful Online Museums and Sites for Virtual Field Trips to Use in Class

Educators Technology

With a working Internet connection and a computer you will be able to take your kids and students on virtual tours exploring far-off places, learning about ancient monuments, visiting world museums and discovering other cultures and ways of living. The Astronomy and Geology galleries include meteorites, comets and geology."

Geology 362
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Launching Version 14.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: Big Data Meets Computation & AI

Stephen Wolfram

Introducing Tabular Manipulating Data in Tabular Getting Data into Tabular Cleaning Data for Tabular The Structure of Tabular Tabular Everywhere Algebra with Symbolic Arrays Language Tune-Ups Brightening Our Colors; Spiffing Up for 2025 LLM Streamlining & Streaming Streamlining Parallel Computation: Launch All the Machines!

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Computing the Eclipse: Astronomy in the Wolfram Language

Stephen Wolfram

Basic Eclipse Computation It’s taken millennia to get to the point where it’s possible to accurately compute eclipses. But now—as a tiny part of making “everything in the world” computablecomputation about eclipses is just a built-in feature of the Wolfram Language. The core function is SolarEclipse.